Mordor (other)
Mordor is a fictional location in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth. Mordor may also refer to: * ''Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol'', a 1995 role-playing video game * Mordor, Warsaw, an informal name for the area, mostly composed of the office buildings, in the city of Warsaw, Poland * Mordor Macula, an informal name of an area on Charon, a moon of Pluto {{disambiguation ...
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Mordor
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Mordor (pronounced ; from Sindarin ''Black Land'' and Quenya ''Land of Shadow'') is the realm and base of the evil Sauron. It lay to the east of Gondor and the great river Anduin, and to the south of Mirkwood. Mount Doom, a volcano in Mordor, was the goal of the Fellowship of the Ring (characters), Fellowship of the Ring in the quest to destroy the One Ring. Mordor was surrounded by three mountain ranges, to the north, the west, and the south. These both protected the land from invasion and kept those living in Mordor from escaping. Commentators have noted that Mordor was influenced by Tolkien's own experiences in the industrial Black Country of the English Midlands, and by his time fighting in the trenches of the Western Front (World War I), Western Front in the First World War. Another forerunner that Tolkien was very familiar with is the account of the monster Grendel's unearthly landscapes in the Old English poem ''Beow ...
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